"I made a mistake in presuming that the self interest of organizations, specifically banks and others, was such as they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms."

Congressional hearings on the causes of the financial crisis, Oct. 2008.

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Max Keiser on Irish banks. Start watching at 45 seconds.

Great rant from Max. Viewing time - 1 minute.

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LAPD Police Brutality Continues

RT - March 4.

In the aftermath of the Christopher Dorner manhunt, the LAPD exposed some of the ugly skeletons it has been trying to hide in its closet. While Los Angeles police claim to have left their historically, corrupt and brutish police tactics behind, the shooting of innocent civilians during the search for Dorner, has shown that the department has changed very little.

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Protecting Whistleblowers in Criminal Antitrust Cases

Senator Chuck Grassley has introduced legislation with Senator Patrick Leahy to extend whistleblower protection for employees who provide information to the Department of Justice about criminal antitrust violations. The initiative follows a successful effort ten years ago by the senators to extend whistleblower protections to private-sector whistleblowers in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Grassley is Ranking Member and Leahy is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Black leaders say the NRA was created to protect freed slaves.

The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) hosted a group of prominent figures from the African American community on February 22nd at the National Press Club to speak out against gun control legislation currently being considered on Capitol Hill.

CURE is the largest black conservative think tank in the nation and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

This is outrageous but it's a joke compared to the billions in subsidies and tax breaks that flow to banks and corporations.

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Sheriff uses polygraph to weed out racist applicants for deputy.

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Completely insane. Start watching at 1:30.

The North Face: Alex Honnold in Yosemite - 2000 ft. of climbing. 2 hours and 50 minutes. No rope. No harness, orr any sort of safety gear. Alone on the wall - Alex Honnold free-solos the NW face of Half-Dome.